Photo: Xaviera Simmons *** On stage with TV On The Radio, the art-rock kings of 2000s Brooklyn, Tunde Adebimpe was known to make a ruckus—an often-intense, cathartic ruckus pulled from deep, dark places. Maybe the most famous example, from 2006, is the band’s transcendent Late Show performance of “Wolf Like Me,” a distorted barnburner that […]
Photo: Andrew Blackstein ** It took forming their own trio for veteran improvisational rockers Russ Lawton, Scott Metzger and Ray Paczkowski to see their names in lights. A few letters, anyway—the band’s moniker, LaMP, is a portmanteau of their last names. Yet each letter represents a vital part of the band’s DNA, so the marquee […]
photo: James Mountford *** In the spring of 2008, Grace Potter took some time away from her band The Nocturnals to record an album with venerable producer T Bone Burnett. The group’s Hollywood Records debut, This Is Somewhere had come out the previous August, generating new visibility that included an appearance on The Tonight Show […]
